Interesting about the alphabet. Italian still does not use 'j' except in imported words. The collection seems to be an exercise book for writing, including the ornamentation around the script. Was it intended as a lace book as such? I haven't studied it thoroughly and the only date I found at first glance looks to be added long after these pages were penned (so beautifully).
Yes, thanks so much to Tess. On 10/11/11, Agnes Boddington <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks again, Tess, for all your hard work. > What I found interesting as a linguist, was the alphabet on page 81 - no J - > U - W yet. > In those days functioned as J, and V as U/V/W. -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
